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Jancis Robinson

Jancis Robinson has been writing and broadcasting about wine since 1975, and has been the FT’s wine correspondent since 1989. Her principal occupation nowadays is www.jancisrobinson.com but she is also responsible for many of the standard reference books on wine including The Oxford Companion to Wine and, with Hugh Johnson, The World Atlas of Wine.

She qualified as a Master of Wine, the first from outside the wine trade, in 1984, and regularly judges and lectures about wine around the world. Her BBC Maestro course, An Understanding of Wine, launched in February 2022. She has presented several award-winning television programmes including Jancis Robinson’s Wine Course and Vintners’ Tales, and is a professional narrator.

Email Jancis Robinson @JancisRobinson  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
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    It’s the weather, stupid: Jancis Robinson on the year in wine

    Plus: production is down, corkage is up and ‘natural’ is becoming more of a norm

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    Even sandwich meetings used to come with wine — then the Americans arrived

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